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Freeze-Dried Blood May Save Soldiers' Lives

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we've-mixed-blood-into-this-man's-coffee dept.

SpaceAdmiral writes "An Israeli company is working on a method to freeze-dry blood. This would enable soldiers to carry a packet of their own blood on the battlefield. If a soldier is injured and needs blood, medics could mix the dried blood with water and give the soldier a transfusion of his or her own blood. From the article: 'The idea is to take a soldier's blood, freeze it in laboratory conditions, take out the ice crystals leaving only the blood components. It will look like freeze-dried coffee in a little bag.'"

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  1. Re:Two technologies by SpeedBump0619 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey I can play that game too:

    So, instead of "used on accident victims without their permission" what you advocate is "withheld from dying people because they couldn't say yes."

    Explain to me how that's better. I agree that oversight is needed for such a program. But the rules of the program only allow it in critical cases where no alternative is available. The only thing that bothers me about it is the continuation of its use once in the hospital.

    If you are going to complain about this trial, don't just take one aspect of it in isolation and whine about that. Yes, no prior consent is received...but it only matters in cases where option 'b' is die.